About Us

When Siker first started delivering cyber security training and awareness in mid-2013 (as HS & TC), its whole ethos was about providing people with the right level of skills to be able to perform their job and their role securely. Right from the start we recognised that not everyone needs to be a security professional but most of the users of today’s IT do need to understand more about how they can become ‘professionally secure’.

Once we could get users understanding their responsibilities, then we could help organisations fully understand about how their staff can become part of their first line of defence and thus, reduce their attack surface and the organisation’s risk profile.

Whether your organisation refer to the subject as ‘Cyber’, ‘Digital’, ‘Information’ or simply ‘IT’, security is rapidly evolving into the one of the key areas that Boards are starting to focus on.

In the past, there have been a variety of generic certifications and courses covering a wide set of mainly risk-focused domains but Cyber Security is now a prominent issue on any Government or corporate agenda and there is a growth in the requirement for highly-trained, skilled individuals with the right set of competencies for their particular role.

Management Team

Tim Harwood

CEO

Tim Harwood is a veteran of the security world and has been providing information security guidance and expertise to corporate clients, the UK Government and the UK military for over 30 years. As CEO of Siker, he provides strategic direction for the company that he founded in 2013.

Tim Harwood

CEO

Tim’s professional background includes security capability strategy planning and development, information security capability framework design and implementation and security awareness strategy design and implementation. He has developed a security professional development framework for a global top ten oil and gas company, delivers training as a member of the QA and Firebrand faculties and, as a thought leader, regularly presents at summits and conferences.

In 2013, he participated as a Subject Matter Expert and Steering Committee member for the design of the new GIAC certification, the GICSP certification. As part of his work he contributed questions for the certification exam and worked on the skills and competency framework for the certification. In addition, he is an Assessor and Interviewer for the Chartered Institute for Security Professionals (CIISec) for potential new members.

Tim has recently designed and delivered ICS security training and awareness for CPNI/NCSC (as part of the UK National Cyber Security Strategy) as well as ENISA and other National governments and global companies. He is also a Visiting Lecturer on Business Risk at the University of Buckingham.

Tim is a Full member of CIISec, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI), a Senior member of the International Society of Automation (ISA) and is the holder of the GIAC Security Leadership (GSLC) and GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC) Certifications. Between 2017 and September 2018 Tim was an elected member of the Board of Directors for the Institute of Information Security Professionals (forerunner of CIISec) with the Board portfolio of IS skills and competencies.

Sam Harwood

COO

After a successful career in the Royal Military Police, Sam graduated with honours from the University of East London, UK, majoring in Computing Science, before commencing a career in the IT support industry. Sam is a qualified instructor in accessibility software.

Sam Harwood

COO

She spent several years working with new students with various disabilities to ensure they could make the best use of the available IT, thus, enhancing their learning experience. Following this, Sam decided on a career change and qualified as a Personal Trainer and Swimming coach.

Stuart Harwood

Head of Professional Services

Stuart joined the team in 2016 coming in from a financial background. He has been instrumental in the design and delivery of various courses including the Penetration Testing, Python Basics and Incident Handling courses.

Stuart Harwood

Head of Professional Services

Stuart has a BSc in Computing Science from Stirling University and is a certified Cyber Essentials Practitioner.

Anne Wheatley

Head of Academy

Anne joined the team in September 2022. She brings 30 years of experience in the education sector, with employers including City & Guilds and Open University. She is a qualified assessor / internal verifier and recently achieved her NEBOSH certificate. Anne will be overseeing our administration and processes for the customer journey.

Rest of the Team

Tim Canning

Senior ICS Consultant and Trainer

Tim brings a wealth of experience from the last 30 years which started in the Royal Air Force and ending up as a Lead Engineering consultant for a top 20 oil and gas company. Tim has amassed several accreditations and certifications along the way including CEng, GICSP, C|EH, to name but a few.

Tony Reid

Consultant

Tony came to us in January 2019 after a 30-year successful career in the Police service. He has worked in his local force, national specialist departments and national agencies. He initially specialised in covert operations and investigations throughout the United Kingdom and abroad. As a highly experienced covert operative and qualified Police instructor, he also taught various covert courses, to operatives and potential new instructors.

Tony Reid

Consultant

He was subsequently promoted to Detective Sergeant, Cyber Crime, leading a National Cyber Operations team and latterly in managing Cyber Crime Forensics. Tony brings a great deal of practical skills, teaching ability and Cyber experience to the team.

Graham Speake

Senior OT Cyber Trainer

Graham Speake

Senior OT Cyber Trainer

Graham Speake is the CISO at Berkana Resources Corporation. With over 30 years’ experience, Graham is a control systems and cyber security expert. In addition to his role at Berkana, Graham is a NexDefense fellow, SANS trainer and a subject-matter expert to the GIAC GICSP certification. Graham was Principal Systems Architect at Yokogawa, responsible for steering development of security within Yokogawa products and ensuring security certifications such as ISA Secure and Achilles were achieved. Graham spent nearly 10 years with BP, securing critical plants in both the U.K and the U.S.

Sam Rigby

Cyber Intern

Sam Rigby

Cyber Intern

Sam is currently working within the Cyber team here at Siker, having joined on a 3rd year placement from Nottingham Trent University. Sam is currently studying for a degree in Cybersecurity, where he is currently averaging a high 2:1. Sam’s role currently see him work on projects such as virtualisation of exercises for Siker courses, creation, and administration of the exercises that we use for Siker courses as well as a wide range of investigation and system administration.

Rhys Parsons

GRC Analyst

Rhys joined Siker in 2021 from Bournemouth University where he achieved a degree in Cyber Security Management. Since 2021 Rhys has overseen all the risk-based work both within Siker and for Siker clients. We are proud to say that Rhys has achieved his Certified ISO27001 Practitioners certificate in 2022 and is currently working towards his next certification in ISO27001 Lead Auditor.

Rhys Parsons

GRC Analyst

Kirsten Harwood

Admin and Marketing Specialist

Kirsten comes to us as our Admin and Marketing Specialist so any of the graphics you see on our social medias, Kirsten is the one responsible. Kirsten has over 14 years of experience in retail in shops on the high street and on road. Because of her love for metal music, she has travelled throughout Europe with bands as their merch seller and volunteers at the music festival UK Tech-Metal Fest as Artist Liaison to the headliners.

Shaun Bisset

Cyber Apprentice

Shaun Bisset

Cyber Apprentice

Allow us to introduce Shaun Bisset, who will embark on a new venture with Siker as a Cyber Apprentice starting in July 2023. Previously, Shaun worked in the telecommunication sector, where he played a pivotal role in upgrading Scotland's fibre infrastructure and actively contributed to several rural projects.

Shaun has nurtured a deep interest in cutting-edge technology since a young age, which has now led him to pursue a new career path in the field. He thrives on challenges and thoroughly enjoys the process of acquiring new concepts and knowledge. Shaun possesses a natural curiosity that drives him to understand the intricacies of how things work; without such understanding, he finds it difficult to let go.

During his leisure time, Shaun is an avid rugby enthusiast and regularly supports his local club during weekends. When he isn't immersed in rugby, you'll likely find him at the fishery or engaging in online gaming sessions with his friends.

Advisory Board

Jon Blake

Platinum 3P CEO and Siker Advisory Board

Jon Blake

Platinum 3P CEO and Siker Advisory Board

Jon Blake is a member of the Siker Cyber Advisory Board. He advises the board on investigation, intelligence and Internet related technical issues.

Jon has over 28 years’ detective experience as an investigator and covert intelligence specialist with the Metropolitan Police Service, New Scotland Yard, London. He specialises in Internet and cybercrime investigation, covert operations and related risk. He retired from the service in 2014 with an exemplary service record.

His last police posting was at the UK College of Policing as the National Coordinator for Intelligence Skills, with responsibility for Open Source and Internet Investigation and related Intelligence Management/Operative skills development.

Jon contributes to a number of working groups as a subject matter expert in the areas of Internet related crime and covert operations and acted as an advisor to those setting national investigative policy and procedures.

A highly sought-after speaker and university lecturer, Jon has delivered training and consultation services in over 30 countries, including on behalf of the United Nations in the Middle East and North and Southern Africa and supporting UK interests in the Caribbean and central Asia.

Tony Reeves

CEO of L7E and Siker Advisory Board

Tony Reeves

CEO of L7E and Siker Advisory Board

Tony is our primary Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) / Counter-Drone instructor, with a distinguished and successful career in the Royal Air Force and over 10 years’ experience in Industry. A highly experienced UAS and Counter-UAS principal consultant and Chartered Engineer, Tony has an extremely broad and deep range of skills, which include UAS operations, intelligence analysis, air defence, electronic warfare, and cyber vulnerability.

Unusually for someone operating in the Counter-UAS arena, Tony is also a qualified Unmanned Air Vehicle pilot. During his RAF career and later as an Industry consultant, Tony worked with all of the UK Ministry of Defence’s UAS programmes, from MQ-9 Reaper through to the Mini-UAS family of systems. A notable highlight was acting as the acceptance lead for the ScanEagle system into service with the Royal Navy, which included harbour and sea trials. Tony has 750 hours’ flight time on MQ-1 Predator, and was qualified as a mission and combat instructor, Standards Evaluator and Flight Examiner.

Tony is an internationally recognised independent voice within the C-UAS arena, with an extensive network across Government and Military, Critical National Infrastructure and Industrial Sectors. He has led and chaired many international C-UAS conferences in Europe and the Middle East, and also delivered workshops to an international audience. Tony is a published writer with recognised C-UAS expertise, with multiple C-UAS articles and recent engagements by UK media including the BBC and The Telegraph.

Tony is an adept and highly personable workshop leader and facilitator, with a client base that includes UK Government agencies, overseas Ministries of Defence and UK Industry. His workshops are highly valued by our clients, and he is much in demand as a trainer, facilitator and consultant.

Carol Brookes

Managing Director of Platinum 3P and Siker Advisory Board

Carol Brookes

Managing Director of Platinum 3P and Siker Advisory Board

Carol has a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Organisational Psychology. She is also a member of the Siker Cyber Advisory Board.

She advises the Board on behavioural, team and organisational psychology and psychological approaches to risk and error.

Carol is a Business Psychologist. She has 17 years’ experience in the public and academic sectors at Board level, both in executive and non-executive roles. She has 13 years’ experience of providing consultancy, training and development across sectors and in multi-agency settings, including within law enforcement, within Counter Terrorism and Serious and Organised Crime, at both local and national levels. She has vast experience of working with senior leaders and boards to develop future plans and strategic capacity.

In Platinum 3P, Carol combines her specialist background in psychology with her previous experience supporting countering terrorism and serious and organised crime, something she is passionate about. She is an experienced and skilled facilitator, broker and team/individual coach, with a focus on finding solutions and working with people and businesses to engage in behaviour change.

Carol is a member of the British Psychological Society and the Association for Business Psychology.

About Us

Management Team

Tim Harwood

Sam Harwood

Stuart Harwood

Anne Wheatley

Rest of the Team

Tim Canning

Tony Reid

Graham Speake

Sam Rigby

Rhys Parsons

Kirsten Harwood

Shaun Bisset

Advisory Board

Jon Blake

Tony Reeves

Carol Brookes

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